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Even more surge in users playing these games! Excellent!

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[h1]Devil May Cry Netflix Show Causes Surge of Users for Its Games[/h1]
By Michael Ruiz
April 14, 2025, 12:23pm

At the beginning of the month, Netflix released its new animated series, Devil May Cry. It is an adaptation of the popular long-running video game series starring the fan-favorite demon hunter Dante and his twin broth Vergil. The show is doing well enough, garnering solid reviews when it launched on the streamer. What's more interesting is that it seems to have grabbed the intrigue of its viewers, as the games the show is based on are seeing a surge of users.

According to Steam DB (pointed out by X user @Dreamboum), Devil May Cry games have seen a significant spike in users since the Netflix show was released on April 3. This pattern pertains to every entry in the series, including DmC: Devil May Cry, the controversial reimagining of Dante's demon-slaying adventures. Of course, some are more popular than others, but generally, there are quite a bit of people playing these beloved, stylish action games right now, even compared to just last month.

Currently, Devil May Cry 5 has the most users by a fairly wide margin. As of this writing, the 2019 entry has a 24-hour peak of 14,064 users; the highest user count it reached since the Netflix show premiered was 14,976. The next is the Devil May Cry HD Collection, which includes the first three games in the series. These games currently have a 24-hour peak of 7,622; according to Steam DB, this is also the game's all-time peak. Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition and DmC: Devil May Cry are currently at 1,419 and 742 users respectively.

Devil May Cry Netflix Show Causes Surge of Users for Its Games

Since the Netflix show premiered earlier this month, Devil May Cry games have seen a significant increase in players.

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[BrawlMan]

Spine

Covenant

Painkiller Remake
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[FakeSympathy]

I just... like how do they do this? It was already obvious enough for Concord, but here they have a exact example of what will happen to them from less than a year back, and somehow they do the exact same mistake? Is there seriously not a single person in the entire company that has heard of Concord? Or is there just a couple of out of touch exact at the top and everybody else know they'll lose their job 2 week after release?

Its a shame cause I really like the art style and could see myself playing a couple of round just for that, but I'm not dropping money for the privileged of being able to access a couple of dead server.

Maybe they are a bunch of masochists who thrive on embarrassment.

 

[Gergar12]

Is Steam coming to Xbox?

As unlikely as it sounds, there are signs it will happen

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The only reason I would be tempted to go back to consoles is this.

 

[meiam]

This remind me of something, just can't put my finger to what...

 

[BrawlMan]

This remind me of something, just can't put my finger to what...

Horizon with multiplayer.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

This remind me of something, just can't put my finger to what...

"Fall or rise. The choice is yours."

goddamn. with writing as poignant and cutting as this, how is anyone supposed ever get up at all?

honestly they should applied budget elsewhere, away from 3D bigworld blockbuster attempt at realistic graphics and more towards maybe fixed/limited camera, stylised graphics, competent voice actors and writers instead, even keeping same intent to shamelessly rip off other work, it still seems an absurdly misjudged priority of resources that history has shown repeatedly to fail every time. you can rip off anything you want as long you make it good and don't be dumb

 

[BrawlMan]

Tekken Players Going Back to the older Tekken games.
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[NerfedFalcon]

honestly they should applied budget elsewhere, away from 3D bigworld blockbuster attempt at realistic graphics and more towards maybe fixed/limited camera, stylised graphics, competent voice actors and writers instead, even keeping same intent to shamelessly rip off other work, it still seems an absurdly misjudged priority of resources that history has shown repeatedly to fail every time. you can rip off anything you want as long you make it good and don't be dumb

I don't know what the problem is all of a sudden with the common camera views (orbiting the player, over the shoulder, first person). They were common even back when fixed camera games were popular, and they're common because they work. But seeing people complaining about SH2R's camera and now this comment apropos of seemingly nothing, when it's not like implementing a camera that follows the character and is controlled by the player is expensive these days, leaves me wondering just what the hell I've missed.

To be clear it's not like I disagree with the overall sentiment of this post, but the specific mention of "fixed/limited camera" is a head-scratcher to me.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

I don't know what the problem is all of a sudden with the common camera views (orbiting the player, over the shoulder, first person). They were common even back when fixed camera games were popular, and they're common because they work. But seeing people complaining about SH2R's camera and now this comment apropos of seemingly nothing, when it's not like implementing a camera that follows the character and is controlled by the player is expensive these days, leaves me wondering just what the hell I've missed.

To be clear it's not like I disagree with the overall sentiment of this post, but the specific mention of "fixed/limited camera" is a head-scratcher to me.

should clarify I got no problem with 3D cameras and no issue with the Silent Hill 2 remake neither, am one of those weirdos who kinda prefers it tbh. I only brought it up in that context as an approach that could save a lot of resources to be spent elsewhere in ways it would make the overall product looks less cheap and rushed. also you'll never see me defending fixed camera angles, that shit's for nostalgics lol

 

[NerfedFalcon]

should clarify I got no problem with 3D cameras and no issue with the Silent Hill 2 remake neither, am one of those weirdos who kinda prefers it tbh. I only brought it up in that context as an approach that could save a lot of resources to be spent elsewhere in ways it would make the overall product looks less cheap and rushed. also you'll never see me defending fixed camera angles, that shit's for nostalgics lol

Right. That clears it up a lot.

 

[BrawlMan]

Unbeatable - Demo Out Now on PS5 & Steam
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[FakeSympathy]

A Xcom-style game set in SW universe! Really hoping it's more like that, and not Marvel Midnight Suns


Corny-ass name aside, it's reminiscent of the classic Rainbow Six games I used to play on my gamecube. NGL, kinda excited!


Man, this game looks good! Might be a time for a hardware upgrade. Sucks about what happened to Mick Gordon, but I think it will be a blast

 

[FakeSympathy]

Okay.... It's definitely real?

 

[meiam]

Okay.... It's definitely real?

I'm hoping for a serious redo of the character leveling system, being punished for using your main weapon too much is definitely a choice. I do hope they don't dumbdown it too much thought (ie skyrim), I like to do some thinking when leveling/planning character(currently has 3 hours in BG3 and still hasn't actually started the game).

Wonder if they'll still get Patrick Steward for the king.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Guess it's not a Bethesda game without at least one technical issue, whether intentional or by design